Safe & Sound. (Save You Trilogy)

~13~

Alex: 14
Lily: 12

It was just after New Years, I was going round to Esme's. She, Ella and Axel all had a gift from me.

I walked down their street and knocked on the door, after 20 minutes I realised no one was in. So, I called her and a female voice picked up.

"Hello Esme?" I questioned.

"No I'm sorry sweetie, this is a nurse, Esme was found dead last night, I'm just sitting her belongings." I dropped my jaw in horror.

"Where are the kids?" I questioned scared.

"With their father." She replied.

"That can't be right he's in prison." I said, hoping she'd say their step.

"He was released last month." I dropped the phone in anger, shock and fear. No way it had been six years. I quickly messaged Luke, telling him about what had happened before rushing home to the kids.

I re-phoned the hospital and they agreed to let me see her before they took her to the morgue. I quickly drove and walked into the cold room.

"How did she die?" I questioned sadly, wiping a tear from my face, it had broke my heart, she'd become a really close friend in the small time I knew her.

"She fell and hit her head on something, her husband found her, it was a massive blow to the back of the head." I nodded, walking over and staring down at her picture perfect face. She was always so pretty.

"Bye Es, I'm sorry we didn't know each other for longer..." I mumbled before walking away with a frown plastered on my face.

On the long walk home, it began to rain, I got soaked but it matched my mood, down and cold.

I knew she didn't fall, he killed her. I bet he did. But again I had no proof and I wasn't going to fight a case in which I'd lose. Luke wouldn't believe me ad Josh would manipulate everyone to go against me, maybe I should just leave that family alone, I was way too nosy, I should be worried about my own kids, not the ones placed with a murderer for a father.

Lily's P.O.V

I opened my laptop to read the Facebook status' of girls who were going out for parties, I wasn't invited, I never was. I rolled through my wall and saw the words, DIE EMO SCUM. Written in bold, I felt my heart sink, what the hell are they calling me.

I opened a browser typing in Emo at the search engine, the images that came up shocked me, I wasn't anything like that so why was I called that?

As I progressed through the images, I saw an arm, with cuts in it spelling out the word, 'Emo.'

"Why would anyone do that?" I questioned out loud.

"Do what?" I heard Alex say as he walked into my room. His eyes scanned over the screen and he rolled his eyes.

"People do that for attention. Why are you even looking at that, what are you freak?!" I felt my eyes gloss before I threw him out of my room.

"Go away Alex!" I screamed as I slammed the door and slid down, tears ran down my cheeks as I choked on my own breath, why did it hurt?

I didn't want to hurt.